Save Even More Time On Hacker News

Post by grimgrin » Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 2:54 PM UTC

pooriaazimi wrote: post #10

Great plugin. I primarily use http://hckrnews.com to browse HN submissions ( a lot IMO ) and its extensions for Safari: http://hckrnews.com/about.html Both have great ideas, and I think pg should adopt one of them (though I know he won't). I hate it when I use my iPad for browsing HN. Comments are small, up/down-vote arrows are minuscule, and you can't use these highly-useful plugins. And I've tried about a dozen dif…

Post by nicolasmiller » Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 3:09 PM UTC

Post by pooriaazimi » Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 3:28 PM UTC

adambyrtek wrote: post #34

pooriaazimi wrote: post #10

Great plugin. I primarily use http://hckrnews.com to browse HN submissions ( a lot IMO ) and its extensions for Safari: http://hckrnews.com/about.html Both have great ideas, and I think pg should adopt one of them (though I know he won't). I hate it when I use my iPad for browsing HN. Comments are small, up/down-vote arrows are minuscule, and you can't use these highly-useful plugins. And I've tried about a dozen dif…

I always wonder why Hacker News is not developed as an open source project. This seems like a natural approach for such community, especially taking into account that pg has no time/interest to drive it himself.

Post by danmaz74 » Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 4:38 PM UTC

Alex3917 wrote: post #36

danmaz74 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This doesn't happen to me and it just shouldn't happen (I don't change the username in any way). Did you see this consistently? It's very odd.

Ahh I think I was actually thinking of the HN chrome extension Autobahn, which also has the tagline "save time on Hacker News."

Post by vlad » Tue, Oct 16, 2012, 7:09 PM UTC

Alex3917 wrote: post #27

I actually just uninstalled this the other day. It annoyed me that clicking on someone's username wouldn't take me to their profile page, and not only that but there was no longer any way to get there.